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Home » Workshops & Conferences » McGill Colloquium

McGill Colloquium

The McGill Colloquium is presented annually, in regular partnership with Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival and the University of McGill.

Upcoming

Past Colloquia

  • 2024 – Improvising Care
  • 2021 – Echoes of a Distance: Music, Protest, and Community in Confined Times
  • 2017 – Still Listening: A Series of Events in Memory of Pauline Oliveros
  • 2016 – “If You Have to Ask”: The Cultural, Cognitive, and Neural Underpinnings of Improvisatory Behavior in the Arts and Beyond
  • 2015 – Improvisation and Community Health/Improvisation et santé communautaire
  • 2014 – Improvisation and the Politics of Everyday Sounds: Cornelius Cardew and Beyond
  • 2013 – Time Forms: The Temporalities of Aesthetic Experience
  • 2012 – Skin-Surface-Circuit: Embodying the Improvisatory
  • 2011 – The Ghost in the Machine: Technologies, Performance, Publics
  • 2010 – Improvisation & Soccial Aesthetics
  • 2009 – Suoni Per Il Popolo Colloquium: Lex Non Scripta, Ars Non Scripta
  • 2008 – Suoni Per Il Popolo Colloquium: Text, Media, and Improvisation

Workshops & Conferences

  • Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium
  • McGill Colloquium
  • Memorial University of Newfoundland Colloquium and Workshops
  • University of British Columbia Colloquium
  • University of Regina Colloquium
  • Other Colloquia and Events
  • Musical Improvisation at Land’s End / Coin-du-Banc en folie
  • Summer Institute / Institute d'été

Research Partners

  • Carleton University Carleton University
  • The University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia
  • University of Guelph University of Guelph
  • 17, Institute of Critical Studies 17, Institute of Critical Studies
  • Musagetes Musagetes
  • Queen's University Belfast Queen's University Belfast
  • Memorial University Memorial University
  • University of Regina University of Regina
  • McGill University McGill University
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